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Author Wientzen, Timothy, 1981- author.

Title Automatic : literary modernism and the politics of reflex / Timothy Wientzen.

Publication Info. Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2021.

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Description 1 online resource.
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Series Hopkins studies in modernism
Hopkins studies in modernism.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary Analyzing such thinking through a neglected archive about embodiment and reflex reveals modernists responding to the historically novel conditions of political life in the twentieth century--conditions that have become entrenched in the politics of our own century.
Contents 1. Automatic Man: A Genealogy -- 2. Vibrant Bodies, Automatic Minds: Vitalism, D.H. Lawrence, and the Politics of Spontaneity -- 3. Public Reflex: Wyndham Lewis, Public Relations, and the Invisible Government -- 4. Pavlovian Nationalism: Rebecca West's Reflex Communities -- 5. Higher Degrees of Automaticity: Habitus, Samuel Beckett, and Late Modernism.
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Subject English literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
English literature.
Chronological Term 20th century
Subject Modernism (Literature)
Modernism (Literature)
Conditioned response in literature.
Conditioned response in literature.
Politics and literature.
Politics and literature.
Literature and society.
Literature and society.
Society in literature.
Society in literature.
Chronological Term 1900-1999
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Other Form: Print version: 9781421440897
Print version: 9781421440873 1421440873 (DLC) 2020045437 (OCoLC)1237750076
ISBN 9781421440897 (electronic book)
142144089X (electronic book)
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1421440873
9781421440880
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